Mancosu on Pasternak (!)

My Doktorvater Paolo Mancosu has a new book: Inside the Zhivago Storm, on the publication history of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. That's the kind of scholar Paolo is: write a 400-page literary thriller because his duties as department chair at Berkeley keep him from doing his "real" work as a logician and philosopher of mathematics. UPDATE: … Continue reading Mancosu on Pasternak (!)

Post Doc in History of Geometry/Epistemology of Math at MPI Berlin

A postdoc in history of geometry is being advertised at Vincenzo de Risi's group at the MPI for History of Science,Berlin! https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=47973 Research projects should concern the history of geometry, the history of mathematical epistemology or the history of the concept of space from the Ancient to the Early Modern Age. Possible topics include: The … Continue reading Post Doc in History of Geometry/Epistemology of Math at MPI Berlin

LaTeX for Philosophers

This last Thursday I held a little workshop to tell our graduate students about LaTeX.  Since LaTeX is fairly commonly used by philosophers, I thought they should at least know what it's all about.  I made a presentation (the handout version contains additional info).  I didn't have time to provide a list of documents/sites to … Continue reading LaTeX for Philosophers